The boy, who cannot be named, appeared at Kirklees Youth Court yesterday charged with robbery of a mobile phone on the canal towpath off Red Doles Road on February 25.

The court heard two males were walking along the Canal Path when they were approached by a group of three males and a Blackberry mobile phone was stolen. The prosecution say the defendant was the one who took the phone.

The teenager entered a not guilty plea and the case will be listed for trial at Huddersfield on July 2 at 1.30pm.